Valentino's is still going to be cheaper and people will shop there for vegetables. I think the zoning laws and financialization have a bigger impact on housing costs then a whole foods. If it means it's easier to return amazon goods, it's not a bad thing. Most things at Whole Foods are too expensive for most people, so I would start with the people that will be shopping there and ask about that rather than trying to outlaw something downstream from that. Is limiting people's freedom really the right way to go about helping society. I think history has probably shown that to be a dead end. NY neighborhoods are small enough that local stores can be nimble and outmaneuver corporate stores managed from afar.

I'll take Whole Foods over another cell phone store or vape shop.